December 11, 2011, Sunday

CLARE GARDNER, her late husband, Wallace, lying in state in an adjoining room of their home, does not waste much time setting an agenda for herself in ''The Things You Least Expect,'' Joan Vail Thorne's rather silly and transparent new play receiving...

JUST when you thought it was safe to venture forth without encountering yet one more spoof of film noir, along comes ''Gunmetal Blues'' here at George Street Playhouse. Though grainy and gritty, all smoke and shattered mirrors in its sleazy portrayal...

THOSE seven shiny doors, gussied up with red-and-black lacquer moldings in the Art Deco-style hotel suite designed by R. Michael Miller for ''Lend Me a Tenor'' at George Street Playhouse here, should demand star billing. During Ken Ludwig's zany, if...